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Did you hear about the new Democratic Party postmortem on the 2024 election? Perhaps I need to be more specific: There’s this one, that one, and also this one, and probably more that I’m missing.

Postmortems are a recurring motif among Democrats, who have long “interpreted every loss as an utter rejection of their party and a signal that they needed to make major changes in the way their party was run, what it stood for, and how it picked candidates,” as the political scientist Seth Masket writes. But Donald Trump’s reelection has prompted an especially frantic round of soul searching.

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